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libreoffice: updated to 4.4.1. Note that these packages are compiled on Slackware 14.1 (and work fine on -current). These packages will not work on Slackware 14.0 (I have libreoffice-4.1.6 packages for that).

vlc: updated to 2.2.0. First major release in a long time. New libraries: asdcplib, speexdsp. Several internal libraries got an update as well: ffmpeg, libass, libbluray, libdvbpsi, libdvdcss, libdvdnav, libdvdread, libebml, libmatroska, libupnp, libvdpau, live, orc, speex. Usual caveat: versions that can not only DEcode but also ENcode mp3 and aac audio, and can play […]

libreoffice: updated to 4.4.0. Note that these packages are compiled on Slackware 14.1 (and work fine on -current). These packages will not work on Slackware 14.0 (I have libreoffice-4.1.6 packages for that). Recommended: if you work with MS Office documents a lot, you may want to install the two open source font packages google-caladea-font-ttf and […]

chromium: updated to 40.0.2214.111 with working support for Widevine CDM (you will need to install chromium-widevine-plugin for that) chromium-widevine-plugin: upgraded to 40.0.2214.111 (needs chromium of the same version)

This is KDE 5_15.02_2 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.7.0, Plasma 5.2.1 and Applications 14.12.2. This is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and it will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you migh thave installed! New & changed since my KDE 5_15.02 release: - deps/libssh version 0.6.4 was […]

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Just to let you know, I created a permanent page (as opposed to a blog article) called “PDO Powered“. You’ll find it in the left sidebar of the blog – right below the link to my “About” page. A few posts back when I wrote about a blog upgrade where I finally fixed my database […]

A few weeks back Laurent Parenteau asked me to contribute a post to his series “Meet the Linux family” on the blog “Software Development with Linux“. Well here it is: http://laurentparenteau.com/blog/2010/02/meet-the-linux-family-eric-hameleers/ . Nothing spectacular, but just enough controversy (I hope… I wrote “Steve Balmer” and “Eric Raymond” on the same page) to make it interesting […]

In case you wonder why some of the posts in the “Comments” section of my posts have nice pictures of the poster… these pics are gravatars or “Globally Recognized Avatars”. How does that work? The blog calculates a md5-hash of the email address you enter as part of the comment and looks that up at […]